Remember this: Artificial is artificial. If you start
questioning yourself, you might be.
Mildred Montag is a character from Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. She is the main
character’s estranged wife. Mildred spends her time in front of the television
with her artificial family. She has spent so much time with her artificial family
that she doesn’t acknowledge her physical husband. She neither wants to, nor does she understand anything
organic that is not transmitted to her via the television.
The television has now
replaced her free will to think on her own. The depth of Mildred’s assimilation into a
detached state of being is illustrated in the idea: Mildred doesn’t even know
she is unhappy. Mildred is just there, for lack of a better word; staring
blankly into the screen.
Mildred has so bought into the messages the television is
signaling her that she turns her husband in for keeping books. When her husband
leaves, she sits alone in her apartment watching television, as the bombs are
dropped on the city. Her husband, now far away, wonders if Mildred realizes her
life is over as she sits in the living room alone.
Does Mildred understand how much of her life she has forfeited to years of nothingness? Her husband assumes she does ponder this in her last moments. The likelihood she stares mindless at the television, not even aware that her death is imminent, illustrates her detachment from reality; oblivious to the bombs dropping. She possibly doesn’t know the bombs are real, but believes they are fabrications made up by those trying to usurp the television. The television is truth, anything else is lies.
Look at your cell phone screen.
Does Mildred understand how much of her life she has forfeited to years of nothingness? Her husband assumes she does ponder this in her last moments. The likelihood she stares mindless at the television, not even aware that her death is imminent, illustrates her detachment from reality; oblivious to the bombs dropping. She possibly doesn’t know the bombs are real, but believes they are fabrications made up by those trying to usurp the television. The television is truth, anything else is lies.
Look at your cell phone screen.
Are you Mildred?
I recently visited a friend I had not seen in several years.
I use to enjoy my conversations with her. The person sitting across from me on
the sofa was judgmental and reactive. When conversing back and forth with her,
it seemed more of a Facebook comment section. If I wasn’t prone to face-to-face
conversation, I would not have realized the difference. This person was out of my life for two years,
but when she returned the things now streaming on the internet had turned her
into an angry, combative person. Some of her judgmental comments were aimed at
me like daggers. I sat there and wondered what had happened to the person I
knew. I talk to someone about my experience. Their reply was: She had changed,
not for the better.
The person gave me this in retrospection: It is hard to find
a person that is unchanging. People rarely stay the person as they were from the beginning.
If you have found an unchanging person in who they are, you have found
something real; for they are constant.
Are you the last internet Astronaut?
People, to me, appear to be like Sandra Bullock’s character
in Gravity. Each individual is in the
last moments of life, alone, feeding dialogue into a recorder in the attempts
that someone will know the condition of their present state. They mattered,
were real, and deserved acknowledgement. The astronaut prays and reaches out
for human contact, when there is none to be had.
Silence…the asteroid that is your finger turns off your
computer, and the screen goes black. No response, no message, only the dark
void of a soulless internet black hole.
How often have you, dear reader, logged onto the internet and
tried to have an honest conversation with another stranger, only to feel like
you have posted comments that can or cannot be received by another human
internet astronaut? Do you ever wonder is there really life out there?
You go out into the world. Walking amongst the crooked neck
zombies, you see internet astronauts staring into screens. They drift from
street corner to street corner, disappearing into the great beyond called
Internet Café and Free Wifi.
From a glance, we have become a collective, simpleton mind
fueled by virtual picture books. Simple sentences anemically weep from the
images with no baser thought other than:
Concise
Concise
Concise
The problem with the belief that everyone is walking in a
constructed dream run by the Borg is: the people who are aware will start using
this same tactic to sublimely mesmerize you to do their bidding through mass hypnosis;
much like the nameless musician who tried to do sublime messaging with a
montage video of his monotonous voice repeating the same theme through
different wordage.
How upsetting is the thought that there are individuals in this world that look at their fellow human beings as incapable of rendering their own thought process, reaching a decision, and acting upon it by trying to warp you with repeated commentary used to turn you into their submissive. The one telling you, you are being sheepled has their plan to sheeple you under their control. They gain your trust then believe with the right conditions, you will follow them to jump off a cliff while they stand there and watch.
How upsetting is the thought that there are individuals in this world that look at their fellow human beings as incapable of rendering their own thought process, reaching a decision, and acting upon it by trying to warp you with repeated commentary used to turn you into their submissive. The one telling you, you are being sheepled has their plan to sheeple you under their control. They gain your trust then believe with the right conditions, you will follow them to jump off a cliff while they stand there and watch.
Humans are so desensitized; to get a simple, beneficial or non-beneficial message across, the use of over-stimulating media has become the norm. Large amounts of money are funneled into campaigns to get viewers to buy into a concept based around a simple sentence. A couple of examples are:
You choose love of
food (Man and Lays Potato) over the love of another human being (Woman).
Crayon colors come
from crayon farts
Glue-on eyelashes can
look real with clumpy mascara
Women with artificial
implants are not altered, if no one admits the surgery happened
Bears also get dingle
berry pieces of toilet paper stuck to their rears
People kidnap and
kill M & M’s; M & M females have no morals
Most advertising is done to get the viewer emotionally
involved and divert product. Your mind is manipulated into a campaign concept
based on non-sense and a non-reality made real by the act of purchasing certain
products and immolating the advertising slogan and campaign imagery. If you are
being told food will comfort you, and you turn to food whenever you can’t deal
with human relations, the campaign is a success. See example number one.
Do not eat the
problem (internalize). Solve the problem (externalize).
We don’t need to read See Jane Run, or See Dick at the Well. Just give it straight up to the viewer with an action picture.
Complicated words and sentences are just too much to comprehend. Family has
been replaced by technology; just as the television replaced family for
Mildred. Comprehension, critical thinking and engagement are critically
endangered species.
If this doesn’t bother you, and you ignore the
existence of the information and sit in your living room, gazing at your cell
phone because you would rather not know this reality, well then…
Go back and look at your feeding stream. Look hard. What do you see?
Are you Mildred?
Are you Mildred?
Are you Mildred?
Written by: W Harley Bloodworth
